When we feel powerless, we have forgotten how much choice we really have. We have a choice to take action and we have a choice to change the story we are telling ourselves about our powerlessness.

We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.

Live, and be happy, and make others so.

When you find your place where you are, practice occurs…. When you find your way at this moment, practice occurs.

Peacemaking is the functioning of bearing witness. Once we listen with our entire body and mind, loving action arises.

It seems to me that everything is on its way to becoming something else, giving itself up in the service of another.

“Ask and you shall receive” is the rule, but you must learn how to ask and how to receive.

Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

We are dancing in the hollow of the cup of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.

Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it’s the way words are juxtaposed with other words in a phrase or sentence that can create magic. Perhaps literally. The word “grammar,” like its sister word “glamour,” is actually derived from an old Scottish word that meant “sorcery.” When we…

Having no destination, I am never lost.

Forgiveness, gratitude, compassion, generosity, and unequivocal trust can all evoke rolling, warm waves of love in our bodies.

God exists since mathematics is true, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

There is only what is. The what should be never did exist, but peole keep trying to live up to it. There is only what is.

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know by what you do; that’s what I called “guessing what was at the other side of the hill.”

Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings.”

People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald’s hash brown if it’s all they’ve got.

If I may lift a line from a die hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, “I’d rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.”

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence in you.

You have to tell your own story simultaneously as you hear and respond to the stories of others.

Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends on what we look for. What we look for depends on what we think. What we think depends on what we perceive. What we perceive…

This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists and that it is built entirely out of attentiveness.

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Omniscience… is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.